Polynomials of small degree evaluated on matrices

DOI10.1080/03081087.2012.758262MaRDI QIDQ2872517zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Z. Mesyan

Publication date 15 January 2014

Published in Linear and Multilinear Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1925

zbMATH Keywords

matrixtracemultilinear polynomial

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ordinary and skew polynomial rings and semigroup rings (16S36) Endomorphism rings; matrix rings (16S50) Matrices over function rings in one or more variables (15A54)

Abstract: A celebrated theorem of Shoda states that over any field K (of characteristic 0), every matrix with trace 0 can be expressed as a commutator AB-BA, or, equivalently, that the set of values of the polynomial f(x,y)=xy-yx on the nxn-matrix K-algebra contains all matrices with trace 0. We generalize Shoda's theorem by showing that every nonzero multilinear polynomial of degree at most 3, with coefficients in K, has this property. We further conjecture that this holds for every nonzero multilinear polynomial with coefficients in K of degree m, provided that m is at most n+1.

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